Marketing Manager
Location: AU, VIC, Melbourne
Department: Marketing
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Marketing

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Opportunities like this don’t come by very often. And we’re not just saying that either! Imagine managing all of the marketing efforts in Australia for a fast paced, high growth and successful global start-up/rocketship like Vend!If you don’t know already, Vend was founded in New Zealand in 2010 and is an award winning, venture backed, cloud-based point of sale platform for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software.  We’re shaking things up and pushing out innovations, creating huge demand for our SaaS solution all over the world. We love small business retail and the technologies that empower local retailers to compete with the big chains and restore delight to the neighborhood shopping experience.  Accordingly, we immerse ourselves in these worlds in our New Zealand headquarters and in all of our international offices, including Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin &amp; London.We’re looking for someone entrepreneurial, creative, and independent who can take ownership of existing marketing programmes and strategy in Australia, adapt them to the local market, and drive exceptional results for our largest export market. Your goals for marketing in Australia are simple: raise awareness of the Vend brand, acquire new customers through online and offline marketing, acquire and enable channel and reseller partners. To achieve this goal you'll need a mix of strategic thinking, combined with an ability to roll up your sleeves and execute when required. Initially you'll be managing a team of one, with opportunity to build your team and budget to meet the opportunities and pace of growth. You'll be part of a team of 20+ in our Melbourne office, and also be supported by an award-winning, high performance marketing team at HQ in Auckland, with other remote colleagues based in London, Toronto and San Francisco.You’ll have a great understanding of brand-building and PR, and ideally some existing media contacts, and relish the opportunity to position Vend as a thought leader for the SMB retail, mobile payments, e-commerce and cloud computing.You’ll be responsible for our event programme and Vend user groups on Vend’s behalf and you’ll be overseeing go-to-market campaigns with our strategic partners.  You’ll also market our software and APIs as a retail platform and nurture a thriving developer ecosystem that’s building powerful add-ons to Vend.  As we build our reseller channel of certified Vend experts in Australia, you’ll also be responsible for working closely with channel and sales teams to find innovative ways to build and enable our network of channel and reseller partners, and ensure our in-market sales teams have all the tools and resources they need to convert prospects into customers, and that our global marketing machine is finding and converting the right pipeline of leads for the local sales teams.

Requirements:
Between 4 - 6 years experience in a marketing role with similar responsibilities to this role.Experience of managing people, and/or building effective marketing teams.A strong understanding of the retail industry, SaaS and transformative  technologies like VendExperience managing external agencies (PR, Advertising) to deliver a ROIExperience managing events, from budget to research to execution, to delivering an ROIExperience in strategic partnerships and developer relationsReseller channel marketing experienceMarketing automation experience (sales onboarding, lead nurturing and email marketing)Writing, journalism or PR experience, with video content production experience a plusBuild wonderful relationships with other Venders who will be working with you on design,  content, events, sponsorships, sales, business development and product related “stuff”.Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task with excellent organization skills.Comfort with a fast-paced environment and changing requirements.Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity.A sense of humor. Seriously.

Benefits:
What can you expect from us?We have an open culture where we openly share our results and where your input is truly valued.We work hard but also have a lot of fun while we’re at it!We'll have a great environment for you to work in and grow the team.Work-life balance.  We know you have a life outside of work and at Vend you can have a life inside work too.Utilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job description.We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door.If you’re interested in joining one of New Zealand’s (okay, the worlds) most exciting companies, Best Workplaces and obviously the most fun and hard working environments around, we’d love to hear from you.Get in touch, apply now, hit that button, get it done and come have a chat with us. We can’t wait to hear from you!